LAHORE: Punjab University’s Academic Staff Association (PUASA) on Wednesday organised an awareness seminar in which speakers urged women to ensure self-examination and adopt a healthy lifestyle to avoid breast cancer.The wife of Punjab Governor Mrs Parveen Sarwar, PUASA President Prof Dr Mumtaz Anwar Chaudhry, Secretary Javed Sami, faculty members and students from various departments attended the event.Addressing the seminar, Mrs Parveen Sarwar said women must ensure self-examination so that the disease could be detected at an early stage. She said if women would be healthy, they would be able to look after their families in a good way.Prof Dr Umbreen Javed said women should dedicate five minutes to themselves a month to cope with the menace. Dr Firdous-e-Barin said around 90,000 women suffer from breast cancer every year; therefore, women must examine themselves for timely detection of breast cancer as it was the only way to survive.Later, Mrs Parveen Sarwar and PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmad led an awareness walk against breast cancer from Al-Raazi Hall to the VC office.
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